----- Original Message ---- From: Michael Foster > What's most interesting to me is that all the references to this concept, of > which there are many on the internet, call a soccer ball (football) 12-sided. > The classic football has 32 sides, 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons.
Indeed you are correct, Michael. Matter of fact there is even a name for this seeming chimera: the truncated icosahedron http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncated_icosahedron > While this is not particularly important as far as the cosmology is > concerned, the fact that this error would be repeated over and over again by serious scientists and mathematicians makes one wonder how often serious errors are repeated until they become accepted fact. ...ah... you mean: like the laws of thermodynamics ? And apologies for not seeing this error ... no provincial excuses either as I did play intercollegiate soccer... but that that was many moons ago... or should I say: many truncated-icosahedrons ago ... Jones BTW this truncated icosahedron shape was also the configuration used for focusing the explosive shock waves of the detonators in the original A-bomb...
